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Why use Llama 3 70B Instruct on Microsoft Foundry?
Microsoft Foundry offers Llama 3 70B Instruct with pay-as-you-go pricing at $3.78/1M input tokens. Microsoft Foundry is a unified Azure platform-as-a-service offering for enterprise AI operations, model builders, and application development.
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Compare Llama 3 70B Instruct Across Providers
| Provider | Input (per 1M) | Output (per 1M) |
|---|---|---|
| GCP Vertex AI | $1.20 | $3.60 |
| AWS Bedrock | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Microsoft Foundry | $3.78 | $11.34 |
| NVIDIA NIM | — | — |
| DeepInfra | $0.45 | $0.65 |
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $3.78 |
| Output tokens | $11.34 |
Capabilities
About Llama 3 70B Instruct
The Llama 3 70B Instruct model is a large language model with 70 billion parameters, released by Meta on April 18, 2024. It's an instruction-tuned variant optimized for conversational applications, utilizing an advanced auto-regressive transformer architecture. The model excels in following instructions and engaging in dialogue, having been trained on over 15 trillion tokens with a December 2023 knowledge cutoff. It demonstrates superior performance on industry benchmarks, scoring 82.0 on the MMLU (5-shot) test. The model incorporates extensive safety measures and optimizations, including RLHF, to enhance helpfulness and reduce harmful content generation. For more details, visit the model's Hugging Face page [1].
FAQ
What does Llama 3 70B Instruct cost on Microsoft Foundry?
On Microsoft Foundry, Llama 3 70B Instruct costs $3.78 per 1M input tokens and $11.34 per 1M output tokens.
What is the context window for Llama 3 70B Instruct on Microsoft Foundry?
Llama 3 70B Instruct supports a 8k token context window on Microsoft Foundry.
How does Microsoft Foundry compare to other Llama 3 70B Instruct providers?
Llama 3 70B Instruct is available from 18 providers. The cheapest input pricing is $0.40/1M tokens from Hyperbolic AI Inference.
Who created Llama 3 70B Instruct?
Llama 3 70B Instruct was created by AI at Meta as part of the Llama 3 model family.
Is Llama 3 70B Instruct open source?
Llama 3 70B Instruct is open source according to the seed data.